Improvement in riding-harrows



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EDWIN E. LEACH, OF CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA.

IMPROVEMENT IN RlDlNG-HARROWS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 159,690, dated February 9,1875; application filed July 14, 1874.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWIN E. LEACH, of Cedar Rapids, in the county of Linn and State of Iowa, have in vented a certain Improvement in Combined Barrow and Cultivator, of which the following is a specification:

The nature of my invention consists in combining, with a sulky-carriage, interchangeable hangers for the support, respectively, ofa harrow, and the beams of a pair of cultivatorplows.

In the annexed drawings, Figure 1 is aplan View, showing the machine arranged as a sulky-harrow. Fig. 2 is a sectional rear elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is a sectional rear elevation of the machine, arranged as a walking-cultivator.

The same lettersof reference are used in all the figures in the designation of identical parts.

The carriage used has an elevated axle tree, A, capable of straddling a row of corn or other growing crop, which is adjustably connected to the journals 0 c, on which the wheels E turn, by means of the uprights or standards 0, adjustably secured by bolts 6 to the angle-plates or bearings D, fixed on they ends of the axle-tree. The tongue B is secured and braced to the axle-tree and other parts of the carriage in the usual manner, and

a drivers seat, S, mounted thereon by means of a spring-bar. Equidistant from the center of the axle-tree holes are bored through it, capable of receiving either bolts 1 Z, for 'securing the hangers a a, or the screw-threaded ends of the draft-bars k 70. The hangers a are provided for the support of lever T, from which the harrow is suspended, all as clearly shown in Fig. 2, when the machine is to be used as a sulky-harrow.

1n converting themachine from a sulkybarrow to a straddle-row walking-cultivator, the harrow, its lever T, and the hangers a and bolts 1, are removed, and the draft-bars k attached, their vertical ends being passed through and secured to the axle-tree, while their horizontal ends, to which the cultivatorbeams are pivoted, extend through holes in the downwardly-projecting lugs of the standards stated.v

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

In combination with the hereindescribed wheel-barrow, the draft-bars k k, for the attachment of cultivator-plows, in the conversion of the machine from a harrow into a cultivator, substantially as specified.

E. E. LEAOH.

Witnesses:

HARMON D. OLDs, A. L. ADAMS. 

